Jaguar will return to factory-backed motorsports in 2012 with a program intended to showcase great racing Jaguars of the past in select historic-racing events.
Mazda plans to offering buyouts to US employees and may make mandatory job cuts as the appreciating yen affects the company's profits.
Nissan will launch its entry-level small car, developed in partnership with Ashok Leyland, in India during 2014.
Ford sales in China rose 28% year on year to 40,978 vehicles in February. Year to date volume fell 15.69% to 71,954 vehicles, however.
The sight of a stranded motorist walking down the road with the traditional red-plastic gasoline jug often leads to a sympathetic word from passing drivers muttered from within the confines of their fuel-filled vehicles.
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DIGITAL EDITOR ANDREW STOY: Approaching from behind in the parking garage, the 2012 Buick Verano looks askance from its scowling chrome taillight eyebrows.
DIGITAL EDITOR ANDREW STOY: Approaching from behind in the parking garage, the 2012 Buick Verano looks askance from its scowling chrome taillight eyebrows.
Porsche Automobil Holding SE said on Friday the supervisory board had extended the appointments of chief executive Martin Winterkorn and chief financial officer Hans Dieter Poetsch by five years, effective 25 November.
VT Holdings, a Japanese car retail and aftersales business, has bought Colt Car Retail Group (CCR) from UK Mitsubishi importer and distributor Colt Car Company.
Continental has acquired Rico Auto Industries' 50% share in the joint venture Continental Rico Hydraulic Brakes India. The company is now a fully owned subsidiary of the global supplier.
EXECUTIVE EDITOR BOB GRITZINGER: To my eye, this slammed "new new" Beetle Turbo is the car
To all extents and purposes the show of solidarity this week by the plethora of unions involved in the potential General Motors/PSA alliance has been impressive.
Interesting comment tweeted by a UK car magazine editor from Geneva this week: the year of cars mere mortals can buy. And it was quite a new model fest.
Toyota's Philippines unit has rolled out the 500,000th vehicle assembled in its Laguna facility and is aiming to get sales back on track to kick-start a year which started with a 26% decline to 3,127 units in January owing to continued parts shortage from a flood-hit Thailand.
Geely Automobile said its parent, Zhejiang Geely Holding Group, and Volvo have signed a technology transfer deal that will allow the Chinese carmaker to enrich its product portfolio and boost its competitiveness.
Toyota is considering ramping up production of its Aqua [Prius C for export] compact hybrid in Japan to reduce a long backlog of orders.
Ford is cutting production at vehicle factories in Cologne and Saarlouis, German unit head Bernhard Mattes said.
Toyota plans to make parts for hybrid models in China from 2013, according to Tadashi Yamashina, president of Toyota Motor Engineering and Manufacturing (China) R&D Centre.
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